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July 2, 2020
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VOL. 53 NO. 39
CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY
Business student launches face mask company during COVID-19
Nadia Alfadel Coloma | July 2,2020
Before she came to DePaul, Lauren Pingad knew she wanted to use entrepreneurship to help people. What she didn’t know was that she’d start her first business venture, Fashion Masks, to help people during a global pandemic. She was wrapping up her junior year when she and her mother, So Hui Nye, a draper technician at DePaul's Theatre School, launched the company in April 2020.
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Responsive work approaches for DePaul's phased reopening
A. Gabriel Esteban, Salma Ghanem and Jeff Bethke | July 2, 2020
Previously, DePaul had asked employees to plan to work from home through July 17. Moving forward, the continuation of teleworking will be decided on a unit-by-unit basis while DePaul maintains a reduced density of people on campus, in accordance with city and state public health guidelines.
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100 poets write about Chicago gun violence in new book
Isabel Rejto | July 2, 2020
One of poetry's most important powers is its ability to personalize the impersonal, according to Chris Green, a senior professional lecturer of English. He hoped to give a human voice to the statistics of gun violence in Chicago and reached out to a diverse group of writers, from famous poets to aspiring ones, to the teens directly impacted by the city's gun violence, with the goal of collectively writing a single poem.
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Introducing... Alumni Authors!
Alumni Relations | July 2, 2020
Whether you want to expand your horizons through a deep exploration of a thought-provoking topic or need an escape to an imaginary world near or far, it's impossible to beat curling up with a good book. That's why Alumni Relations put together a reading list featuring books by Blue Demon authors.
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A call for proposals for the Vincentian Heritage Journal
Division of Mission and Ministry | July 2, 2020
The DePaul University Vincentian Studies Institute invites the DePaul community to participate in a special call to submit publishable materials dedicated to the unprecedented crises we have been challenged to confront in 2020.
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Mission: Writing history in the present
Mark Laboe | July 2, 2020
Thus far, 2020 has been an historic year -- for DePaul, for our nation, and for our world. Importantly, it is a story that is still being written. Before us lies an opportunity in the weeks and months ahead to shape how this year will be remembered and described to future generations
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